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The Future of the Person

Edited by Hans-W. Micklitz · Giuseppe Vettori
Coming Soon Hart Publishing Available September 2026

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ISBN-13
9781509982769
Publisher
Hart Publishing
Publication
September 2026
Format
Paperback
Jurisdiction
U.K. ? Countri(es) for reference only

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This book rigorously debates the notion of the person, a fundamental concept which underpins national private law orders worldwide.

In the 20th century, the unity of the person came under pressure – firstly through the rise of labour law and then secondly (post-World War II) through consumer law. The book moves this debate on, exploring the ongoing fragmentation of the concept of the person and the unique challenges that this gives rise to, and suggesting how this might impact on the future of private law. The book asks three questions:

  • are the 'subject' of the 19th-century Codes or the 'person' of 20th-century constitutions useful categories of reference for the person?
  • could fundamental rights, currently central to the notion of the person, be replaced by forms of the 'impersonal'?
  • how, and why, should subjectivities be rethought in the age of infocracy and autocracies?

Thought-provoking and paradigm-shifting, this is a fascinating examination of the bedrock of private law.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction, Hans-W. Micklitz and Giuseppe Vettori

Part One: Conceptual
2. Private Law and the Embedded Person, Hanoch Dagan and Avihay Dorfman
3. 'Discourses Survive, Humans Die': Trans-subjective, Pasquale Femia
4. Private Law Subjects in European Mini-publics, Martijn W Hesselink
5. The Person of the Future: The Dialogue of Intelligences between Humanism and Technoscience, Antonio Punzi
6. Person and Future, Giuseppe Vettori

Part Two: Reconstruction
7. Persons, Identities and the 'Right to be Oneself', Guido Alpa
8. Intersectionality and Law: Right or Method? Marisaria Maugeri and Pasquale Femia
9. The Many Persons of Law – History of Ideas and Practices, Pia Letto-Vanamo
10. From Abstract Legal Subjects to Real, Thomas Wilhelmsson

Part Three: Technology
11. Treating AI as a Legal Person: Simply a Means to a Regulatory End? Roger Brownsword
12. The Self and the Commodified Self: Biotechnologies before the Bare Life, Valentina Calderai
13. Rights for those who Unwillingly, Unknowingly and Unidentifiably Compute! Michael Veale

Part Four: Society, Economy and Nature
14. The Remains of the Corporation: A Future of Fragmented Corporate Personhood, Anna Beckers
15. The Contractualisation of the Consumer Worker, Vanessa Mak
16. The Legal Personalisation of Nature: A Problem of Method, Muriel Fabre-Magnan
17. Public Policy and Dignity of the Individual, Giovanni Passagnoli
18. The Human Person and Data: Beyond the Individualistic Approach, Giorgio Resta
19. Collective Units as Subjects of Liability in Collective Interest Cases, Vibe Ulfbeck
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